Chapter Eleven – Homeward Bound
Shadow growled.
"Can someone please explain to me, what the heck is going on?" He spat, desperately confused, as everyone was now gathered back in Tails' House. The other three Titans were still outside in recovery, and everyone was still very shaken by the day's events. Rouge had been crying her heart out into Knuckles's shoulder, for the last hour.
She was a Bat with white fur, tan skin, teal eyes with eyelashes, and a curvy figure. She has large pointy ears, small fangs, a small black nose on her muzzle with a pink lipstick, a short pointy tail, and a pair of dark purple wings on her back. Only her head appears to have fur, which flares out into six points at the back. Rouge usually wore powder blue eyeshadow and pink lipstick. Her typical attire consists of a black, skin-tight, strapless unitard with a pink, heart-shaped chest-plate with white trim, along with long white gloves and high-heeled boots with pink cuffs. Her boots also have grey soles and feature pink hearts on the toes.
Tails was explaining everything to the newcomers, Shadow and Rouge, and what the possible strange readings were on their paperwork. The Fox immediately knew.
Magic.
But from what he'd heard, Magic was highly illegal on other versions of Mobius, due to it's dire corruption issues, with a penalty of death, if practiced. But here, on the main timeline, Magic just never existed. Chaos Sorcery just didn't evolve along with the others, as a superpower in amongst the Mobians, when Chaos Energy first landed. There may have been Magic in Sonic's family, in his mother and brother, here on the main timeline. But it was so well hidden, that no knew it was even there, if at all. The very first time Magic to ever be casted here, could have been potentially done by the Sorcerer himself. But with the Sukko missing, and the other three Titans were down, one thing was for certain, the Titan mission had failed and now everyone was desperately worried.
It was late that evening and all was quiet. Sukko was alone, in the middle of nowhere, feeling horrendously guilty. Having shaken everyone up, he just ran. He had to fix this, and thankfully, he knew exactly who to ask. Someone who had decades of Magical experience behind him, significantly more then his own. The last surviving Wizard of the Order of Eldin. Sukko held his hand out ahead of him, the one that bore the ring, and cupped it, palm upwards.
Magic to Sukko was second nature. The Chaos Sorcery that constantly flowed around his veins, had been there since birth, the incredible gift he was born with. But that power, had grown exponentially as he did, and now he almost had anything at his fingertips. To him, being the God Of The Cosmos, was a just a duty, a job, not an ambition or a drive and thirst for power. That's why he was chosen, because if given the choice, he'd give up the job. In a heartbeat. Return to his old simple life as an emergency room Doctor, even if he had to sacrifice the entirety of his Magic in the process. Especially, if his best friend, Frank went with him. He desperately missed that old life, but then as he looked at the ring, he sighed. If he did that, there would be someone he'd be leaving behind. Someone he was now incredibly fond of. Another best friend, who intense loyalty towards him, just didn't deserve such abandonment.
Everglade.
As a fellow Magic user, no one understood that side of him better. He become a significantly better Sorcerer since meeting Everglade, and the Wizard, wow, he'd climbed many mountains from the lowly place Sukko found him. The Sorcerer was so intensely proud, that to just leave, would be utterly heartbreaking for Everglade, and that Sukko just couldn't do to the Skunk. He sniffed and hard.
Suddenly, his eyes glowed a deep, vivid blue was he sent Magic down the hand, where it formed a ball of bright blue light, in his hand, which then flowed directly into the ring. Then smirking, Sukko spoke, his words, strong, loud and true.
"Everglade!" He hollowed.
Suddenly, there was squeal from the ball of light, as someone had literally just jumped out of their skin. The Wizard had been reading in the library in the Sorcerer's Guild. It was located next door to the palace, in the Sol Empire, and had a very successful school within. When Everglade heard the Blue Hedgehog's voice, and he jump and hard. He desperately looked around, wondering where his Sorcerer friend was, but felt something extremely weird on his hand. Looking down, he saw the ring. Normally, it glowed yellow, with his own Magic, but now it was glowing blue, the colour of someone else's. He gasped.
"Sukko?" He stammered. But the Sorcerer's giggled, his voice loud and clear, emanating from the very ring. It's blue light flickered in perfect timing, with his words. He smiled.
"Hi. Sorry, Everglade. I hijacked your ring, so I could talk to you." He admitted. But Everglade frowned.
"What do you mean? Where are you?" He panted, desperately looking around the library. His voice came from the Sorcerer's ball of light, as it to flicked to his sound. But Sukko smirked.
"The main timeline. I'm not in the Sol Empire." He grinned, but Everglade gasped.
"What?" He gasped. "We're speaking inter-dimensionally. How?" He gulped. But Sukko heaved. Time to tell the truth.
"While you were sleeping, I did a mixture of different casts on your ring. Refurbish, Rearrange, Distance, Communication, Mimic, and Stealth. The last one so you wouldn't notice I'd changed it, and it would still work perfectly for you, and Mimic, to create a perfect copy of the ring, which I'm wearing now, to talk to you. It was intensely difficult but thankfully, I succeeded." He explained. Everglade gasped.
"Twin Sorcerer's Relics." He stammered. Sukko nodded.
"Yes?" He frowned. But Everglade was stunned into silence. If Sukko altering his ring, was incredible enough, then to create a twin copy, was almost unheard of. Twin Sorcerer's Relics were the only relics that could communicate with each other, potentially anywhere, and they were only ever created from scratch, as a pair. He seen Sukko do it just once, and it was difficult, even for him. He just stared at the blue glowing ring on his finger.
Sukko heaved and hard. Everglade's sudden silence spoke volumes, and he wasn't happy about it. As tears streamed gain down his face, he sniffed, right into the blue ball of Magic, in his hand.
"Everglade, please stop ogling me. I need you right now." He cried. Everglade blinked. Hearing the Sorcerer's voice break, immediately sent the Skunk running. All thoughts of Sukko's incredible Magic, vanished for his mind. He frowned, cradling the ring in his hand. He was desperate to be there and cuddle the Hedgehog.
"Sukko? What happened?" He heaved. Sukko cried as he explained the unfortunate events of the Titans as they entered the Greater Cosmos. About how he was forced to bring his brothers home and then push his healing abilities to the limit just to save them. Then be forced to fight Shads, just to keep the peace and the Multiverse safe.
Now exhausted, he was on his knees. He just sniffed.
"Everglade, I can't do this anymore." He squealed. But Everglade just growled. He knew it was tough, but hearing Sukko potentially giving up, was not going to happen. He growled.
"No, Sukko, stop. Right now. You know, I heard you scream, even from here, in the Sol Empire. I didn't know what it was, until now. Frank told me that giving up was not the Blue Hedgehog way, so I'm telling you now, to just grit your teeth and bare it. I know you hate it, I know you don't want it. I can hear it in your voice. If you had a chance to give it all up and leave, you would, but you can't. You have to get past this. We need you. The Multiverse needs you. But your not on your own with this. Now, relax, calm down, and tell me the real reason why you called me. Something must be deeply bothering you?" He hissed. Everglade knew the Sorcerer. To call him directly and just chat, was not his style. He always wanted answers, to something, very specifically, Magic related. Sukko sighed hard at the ball. Everglade was right, as always, as he heart just leaped. So his friends were indeed with him. Thinking deeply about his family, especially about the other Titans, Sukko heaved and hard.
"Everglade. Saffie and Manic had nothing in the Greater Cosmos. Is there a Magical means of which they could survive out there? There is still a great evil coming, beyond what I've already seen. So we will have to go back there, all of us, not just me." He desperately wondered. But Everglade blinked.
"What?" He stammered, utterly terrified, but then as he thought about the other Titans. He wondered. "Do you mean creating oxygen and warmth?" He frowned. Sukko nodded. Everglade gasped. "I don't know. Creating warmth on someone is relatively straightforwards. It's just a variation of the Fire cast. The Fabled Blue Flames, which you can already do." He thought. Sukko agreed, but Everglade frowned. "But oxygen, I'm not even sure that's possible. It's the life-giving gas. It would meaning creating something from nothing." He shrugged. But Sukko frowned.
"What, like Conjuring?" He asked. He never used that cast for anything as delicate as creating a gas before. He wasn't even sure he could. Suddenly, Everglade staring around the library, had a brainwave. He ran across the room, and grabbed a book off the shelf. He threw it onto the table and began quickly flicking through it. He squealed.
"Wait, Sukko, you have Healing, right, and Forcefields." He asked, Sukko nodded. He divulged to Everglade a long time ago, the true extents of his Magical abilities. His incredible Magical casts included the eight techniques, which then spawned dozens of variations of casts. They included: Force-Field Generation, Illusions, Invisibility, Telekinesis, Pyrokinesis, Telepathy, Conjuring and Healing. The Super-Flight was a separate Chaos Power entirely and the Orbing was from his Whitelighter grandfather, a Guardian angel sent down from the heavens.
This made Sukko a Whitelighter-Sorcerer Hybrid. More commonly known as a Halfbreed. The twins maternal grandfather was a Whitelighter. A pure one. He came from the heavens to guide his maternal grandmother who was a Sorcerer, and they fell in love, stayed and had children, breaking all the rules. But Sukko believe that, it wasn't what powers you had that made you who you were, it was how you used them, that mattered. Everglade panted. "And you can combine casts?" He questioned. Sukko again nodded, but he huffed.
"Yes, Everglade." He spat. "But what are you getting at?" He growled. But the Skunk exploded in sure excitement.
"Sukko, you need to replicate what your God-like powers are doing to you, out in the cosmos, to your brothers. You will need to combine casts, but also powerfully so. Create a forcefield around them but close to them. Fill it with warmth from your fire, and then using your healing abilities to delicately create the oxygen. I've seen you use Magic to physically pull oxygen from the air, then used it to fill a person's lungs, saving their life. This won't be easy, and technically, it will push you to your very limit, but with the skills you already have, it might be possible." He explained. Sukko heaved, throughly unconvinced.
"I don't know, Everglade." He admitted, sounding incredibly worn and beaten down. But the Skunk just smiled, and then heaved, frustrated to unable to find, in his book, what he was looking for.
"I have been travelling all over the Sol Empire recently, researching any and all Magic I can find. I trying to rebuild the new library to what the Order of Eldin used to have." He paused, as Sukko smirked, but Everglade sighed. "I know, tall order. Their library was vast, but in my travels, I may have come across some information that may help us. I need to go back and check. Look, leave it with me. I'll get back to you." He nodded, and with that, the Skunk was gone.
Sukko heaved as he dissipated the Magic. Right now, Everglade was his only chance and he desperately hoped the Wizard would pull through for him. He did last time. As night really set in all around him, Sukko decided to get some sleep. He curled up where he was and tried to rest, but struggled. A great evil was still coming and Sukko had to face it, with or without the Titans. But they were his family, leaving them behind wasn't an option. They had to be a way.
The resident Shadow, of the main timeline, was still having trouble believing anything. He's always been of the assumption that he was the strongest of them all, the Ultimate Lifeform, and that had been thrown so heavily back at his face, that it had shaken him to the core.
The Sorcerer's show of power was ruthlessly, and yet, that cry, of pure and utter anguish. He heaved, yes, he knew it. He'd been there himself, and when he'd heard it was largely because of Sukko's love for him, and all versions of the Ultimate Lifeform, Shadow just couldn't help but feel honoured. To have someone's love like that, despite everything, was incredibly precious.
The monster he'd seen in his counterpart, the Titan. He knew it, extremely well, and was now realising that all versions of himself, all had that same origins, grief, trauma, and inner darkness. The demon. On the inside, all of them were monsters. Shadow had never shown his to anyone, fearing rejection. He desperately struggled to gain and then keep the trust he'd earned, and as he looked over to his counterpart, still heavily wrapped up in that ghost bridle, it was a issue for all versions of the Ultimate Lifeform.
Storm-breaker intrigued him, but got promptly refused to go anywhere near it. It was destined to be wielded by his counterpart, but when he'd heard that the axe had forcibly taken rule over him, Shadow decided to keep his distance. But his companion, the ghost. His eyes, his voice, he was definitely a Blue Blur. A dead one, and yet, here in the afterlife, he was still standing by his side. Shadow gasped, desperately feeling he just didn't deserve such loyalty.
Neither did his counterpart. Shads fought hard against those reins, finding them both embarrassing and humiliating, but ultimately, he did as he was asked. They were staying on until the trust was back, until Shads could lift, maintain, and wield Storm-breaker, and still remain in complete control. Then Kee Kee would drop the bridle, but Shads would never be able to go anywhere alone again, not without the ghost in tow. The Titan nodded, desperately not wanting to. Shads had screwed up and he knew it, but he was being given a chance to redeem himself, and he was very keen to take it. But despite everything that had happened, was Shadow watched his counterpart, he was stunned to see, he hadn't been abandoned by the other Titans.
Saffie and Manic had stayed. It had been several weeks and both were up and about, having recovered. They had moved out of Tails' House, and gone to the nearby woodlands, and made camp, not far from where Shads had dropped Storm-breaker. Shads was gobsmacked that they stayed, as they just whiled away the hours just talking and cuddling, often the brothers, sitting on the ground, having the Ultimate Lifeform between them.
But as Manic pointed out, none if them had homes to go to. Their original dimensions. Saffie's had moved on without him, Shads wasn't welcome in his, and him, he just didn't want to go. Without his Sonic, and the horrendous political mess there, it just wasn't home anymore.
A prophecy had brought the Titans together, and they were all family, including Shads, so they were staying together. No matter if they win or loose, their bond was strong. Shadow heaved and left them in peace, returning to Tails' House. The Titans had a lot of work on their hands, to get his counterpart back on his feet, and trusted again, but as Shadow has learned, if given the chance, any version of the Ultimate Lifeform could succeed.
But because of his counterpart's escapades, everyone back at the house, had been left wary of Shadow and what he was capable of. Sonic just growled.
"Hey, back off. You comparing Shadow, here, to Shads, the Titan, outside, is just not fair. They've both had completely different experiences and environmental factors happening to them. It can't be done." He heaved. "It like comparing me to Saffie." He added, glaring at everyone.
He had a good point. Both himself and Saffie was both a 'Sonic' and yet they were as vastly different as you could get. Finally, everyone backed off, as Shadow nodded his thanks, as they spotted a somewhat lonely hologram in the corner. Despite separating from the group slightly, Saffie, still beamed his wireless signal in, just to keep up with any possible developments from the house and inform the other Titans.
He was always there, deep in the corner, but rarely said anything, his hologram deeply somber, drained of colour. He knew why, as Sonic had been feeling it, himself.
Sukko.
Even though Sonic didn't have a full link with his twin psychically, just a loose telepathic connection, he could still feel it, and the fact that the Sorcerer was gone from the other end. The result hole left behind was painful, but for Saffie, whom had fully bonded with Sukko, with the full Psychic Link, it was dire. Sonic often saw the hologram in constant tears. The Sorcerer was gone, no answer to Saffie's cries down the Psychic Link, an almighty blocking wall put up. Sukko just didn't want to deal with the Sapphire Dragon right now. He dealt with emotional turmoil alone. This wasn't usual, he'd regular block Sonikku, in the past, for the same reason. But right now, Sukko growled. Saffie just didn't understand, his naivety angering him, so he shut him out.
But as time dragged on, everyone knew it was getting bad, with not only Saffie struggling with the loss of the Sorcerer, but the Blue Blur himself and Kee Kee both broke down into tears, it was bad. It quickly became apparent, that this wasn't about Sukko being the God Of The Cosmos anymore, and just how incredibly powerful he was. His family just didn't care.
They all just wanted their precious brother to come home.
But Frank was just bewildered. Him here, out of all of them, had known Sukko the longest, and he had no idea the he was sitting on that much power. He'd been trying to process it for weeks, was now desperately wondering how long Sukko had been sitting on it. Potentially years, but seeing him crack just broke the Bear's heart. As the search party for the Sorcerer, came back, yet again, empty handed, truthfully, Frank wasn't that surprised. He heaved.
"You won't find him. Sukko's just doing what the King of Stealth does best. Hiding." He admitted, but Tails rounded on him.
"Did you know?" He asked. But Frank heaved, shaking his head.
"No, I didn't. I had no idea he was that strong." He sniffed. "But granted, I knew he had power. He once saved my hospital from a bomb exploding, by catching the whole inside a force-field type ball of pure Telekinesis, and then imploded the thing. Mind you, that was years ago." He shrugged. Tails blinked, stammering hard.
"I think Sukko's been sitting on that much power, for a very long time." He admitted. "Blaze told us the story of him, effectively, going into a full Super-form, equivalent to seven Chaos Emeralds, with just his Chaos Sorcery powers alone. In that retrospect, what we recently saw shouldn't have been that surprising. He's been dropping hints all over the place." He summated, but Sonic stammered, and hard, now shaking. He just didn't care about his twin brother's incredible abilities.
"Tails, where is he?" He gulped, almost in tears. Sonic promptly got hugged, but the Fox, heaved and hard.
"I don't know, but we have to find him and soon. I've just seen the Wisps and their not happy. They still speak of a great evil coming, and it wasn't the Grimcreeps." He announced as everyone gasped. Tails sniffed. "But right now, I have no idea what to do." He admitted, to the completely silenced house.
Suddenly, the intense quiet was broken by someone stood at the open front door. Blaze had been off planet, back in the Sol Empire, for the last few days. The Sol Emeralds, had physically summoned her home, creating the Fire Tornado themselves, completely independently. But as she smirked, she now knew why. She smiled, to the somewhat somber house.
"I think we can help you there." She declared. Everyone looked up, intensely frowned.
We?
She looked alone, at the door, until she stood aside, to show an enormous, extremely thick, beautifully, deep chestnut brown, leather bound book, on legs, behind her. It stumbled into the house, and shuffled across to the table, where the rather small and incredible short Skunk, struggled to get it there. Blaze rolled her eyes.
"Everglade, let me help you with that." He heaved. But the Skunk immediately shut her down.
"No thank, Princess, I can manage." He heaved, as he pushed the huge book onto the table, and grabbed the nearby chair, and promptly climbed on it. Everglade looked around, utterly fascinated. This was his first trip off planet, and immediately liked Mobius as soon as he saw it. It was very different to the Sol Empire, and finally understood, why so many of his friends loved it so much. But Blaze heaved.
"Everglade, what is this all about?" She hissed. "You somehow managed to contact me, here, through the Sol Emeralds, to send by me home, only for you to insist on me bringing you back here. Why?" She asked. But Everglade just giggled, leaning on his enormous book in front of him.
"One word, Princess." He smirked. "Sukko!"
Suddenly, there were intense gasping around the room. Sonic rounded on him. He squealed.
"You've seen him?" He begged, but Everglade shook his head. He heaved.
"No, but I've talked to him. He called me, from here, across the cosmos, to the Sol Empire, asking me for my help. He knows this isn't over, a great evil is indeed coming, and he knows he can't face it alone, nor does he want to." He heaved, but then he giggled, as he smiled at both Sonic and Saffie. "But I can tell one thing, your twin brother is an absolute genius." He grinned. But Blaze frowned.
"What do you mean?" She wondered, for the group. But Everglade smiled.
"Magic. It is effectively what all this is about." He heaved, indicating the house. "You see, for those of you who don't know me, I'm Everglade, and Sukko, as a Sorcerer, is not the only Magic user out there, there are others. I'm a Wizard, of the old Order of Eldin, descented from a long line of powerful Magic casters. Or so we thought until Sukko rapidly trumped that. But that was what was bothering me. Sorcerers and Wizards. Our Magic is the same, though a Wizard's is nowhere near was strong as a Sorcerer's, and yet neither of us can cast the same Magic. Why? Sukko inadvertently gave the answer during the call." He paused, indicating his power ring. "When he asked me for a means of allowing his fellow Titans to survive out in the cosmos." He explained.
Suddenly, Saffie looked up, now very interested. He frowned.
"Is that even possible?" He stammered, but Everglade deeply sighed.
"Potentially, yes, but it requires a deep understanding of Magic. Magic users come on two forms. Sorcerers, who have Chaos Sorcery physically in their veins, and Wizards, who cast using Magical staffs and powers rings, though intense rituals and deep incarnations. In order to cast, you need two things, Power and Knowledge. Having the superpower of Chaos Sorcery will get you nowhere, without the knowledge of how to cast it, and vice versa." He smiled, pointing down at the book. "This is a Book of Magic, that I wrote myself. Everything left over, that I could remember and think of, from the old Order of Eldin. You see, knowledge is also worthless without the power. Now I am aware that anyone could potentially cast Magic using rituals and incarnations, but it's not free. Unless your blessed to be born a true Sorcerer, like Sukko, as the resulting drain can kill. I seen it, unfortunately." He added. But Blaze stared.
"So what are you saying, Everglade, that your the Knowledge and Sukko had the Power?" She frowned. Everglade nodded.
"Yes, effectively. That's the reason why Sukko's fled. Your seeing him, like some kind of, powerful deity. An all knowing God. But he's not. He doesn't have the answers. He's not perfect, he's not a seer. He can't see into the future, and know how it's going to end. He just does, like always, the best he can with what he has, even if it is a lot." He admitted. Suddenly, everyone felt very guilty. They had all pushed him away. Truthfully, that was the last thing they wanted, as Frank just gulped.
"So what do we do?" He stammered. But Everglade smiled.
"We get him back here, and I've worked out how. The cast he asked me for, to create oxygen and warmth within a forcefield. That requires combining two completely opposite casts in Magic. A Destruction cast, in fire, for the warmth, and and a Life cast, in healing, for the oxygen. Sukko can do both separately, along with the forcefields, but I've successfully worked out, with intense research, how he could combine them, but I'll have to teach it to him. But as I was researching this, it got me thinking. Opposites?" He paused, deep in thought. "You see, the Order of Eldin is gone, and I now run the Sorcerer's Guild, but whom it's named after, isn't Sukko. It's Arthur, the Sol Empire's very own, first, true born Sorcerer, in a millennia. But he's still a Wolf pup, and in training, but I've been teaching him, and truthfully, I've been struggling. But then I realised that Sorcerers and Wizards cast opposite Magic. Sukko can create fire, I make ice. Sukko can heal, I cure fatigue, Sukko creates lightning, I do thunder and wind. It's almost exact. So if he can call and talk to someone, across the cosmos, then, not only could I listen in, I could physically summon that person anywhere, as I know for a fact that Sukko can summon items." He smiled. But Blaze smirked.
"You successfully summoned me home, through the Sol Emeralds, Everglade. It was very impressive." She smirked. But Everglade gulped.
"Yes, apologies for that Princess, but I needed to test my theory." He sighed, but Blaze just brushed it off. She nodded.
"Can you get Sukko here?" She demanded, now somewhat impatient.
"Yes, but there could potentially be a problem. Remember, Sukko is the Power, if he resists me..." He heaved, letting the sentence hang, somewhat scared. But Tails cut across him. He stammered
"Then your screwed." He gulped. Everglade nodded, and hard.
"Basically, yes. He's just too strong. Look, Sukko knows I'm here. I can feel his presence in this dimension. It's subtle, but it's there, and if I can feel him, the almost certainly goes the other way. I will be able to find him through that and then summon him. Let's just hope he wants to come home." He heaved. Then he deeply sighed, as he turned towards the nearly wall. Suddenly, he hesitated, looking to Blaze. She knew why, for permission. They were all desperate for the Sorcerer home, so she nodded.
The Wizard took a deep breath. This was, arguably, the most power and difficult cast he'd ever done in his life. Summoning Blaze was relatively straightforwards. He could force her to the Sol Empire, as she had no means of stopping his Magic. Sukko, on the other hand, was an entirely different story. He was the God Of The Cosmos, and had the Magical power to potentially outright destroy the Wizard. If he choose, with the Skunk having very little defence, by comparison. Everglade heaved heavily, under his breath.
"Sukko, please don't fight me." He desperately begged.
Everglade clawed his fingers, his arms slightly bent by his side, as suddenly, his eyes glowed a deep yellow, as he muttered a deep incarnation under his breath. He felt the Magic spread from the power ring, and through his body. Pushing it hards, as two balls of bright yellow light appeared in his palms. As they grew, Everglade, put his hands in front of him, his wrists together, his finger spread out like a flower, brings the two orbs of Magic together, he aimed it at the wall. Everyone baited their breath, as the Magic grew. It exploded from Everglade, as streams of bright sun yellow, hues of luminescent vapour from his hands, towards the wall, where it amassed as pure Magic.
Suddenly, the drain hit and hard, as Everglade squealed, but he pushed through it, desperate to bring his friend home. Suddenly, the Sorcerer's voice could be heard. He'd found him.
Sukko, was resting, sat on the log, still out in the middle of nowhere. He been thinking a lot lately, and truthfully, he missed his family. The wall he put up, blocking the Psychic Link, as beginning to be intensely lonely behind. But he still felt incredibly guilty, for one, leaving, and two, loosing it like that. He was the God Of The Cosmos, he wasn't something he could afford, but he still felt so emotional torn, and the time away from everything, had improved things hugely, and he almost felt ready to face the world again.
As bad as this was, Sukko had to admit, in the past, he'd been worse. This hasn't lead to a full blow rebellion, and it had only been a few weeks, not months. The Sorcerer had been so heavily ingrained in his thoughts, that he hadn't noticed a certain incredible Wizard friend of his, had one, joined him in this dimension, or two, that he was about to be summoned by him.
Suddenly, Sukko was surrounded by deep yellow streamed of Magic, as they tried to wrapped themselves around him. Immediately, and instinctively, Sukko growled, storming to his feet, activating his own deep vivid blue Magic in defence. But as the streams of bright sun yellow hues of luminescent vapour began to come closer, Sukko was able to read the signature of the Magic user who casted it, and his jaw promptly hit the floor. He blinked.
"Everglade?" He gasped, as he dissipated his own Magic, now deeply intrigued as to what was going on. But then he heard the Wizard's voice in his ears. It smiled.
"Come home, Sukko. Your family misses you." It beamed. The Sorcerer heaved and hard. Yes, he missed them too, and his heart just leapt, that he was still wanted, despite everything. He gulped and hard, and finally he nodded.
Yes, he was ready to go home.
He took a deep breath, and ran for Everglade's powerful Magic. The streams wrapped themselves around him hard, and slightly lifting him off the ground, suddenly, with a intense flash of deep yellow light, he vanished. In Tails' House, Everglade screamed, as he pushed the Magic as hard as he could. The point by the wall, the where it swirled, suddenly, rapidly expanded and with another deep yellow flash, the Sorcerer himself, landed right into their midst. However, he tumbled forwards, but he was caught just before he hit the floor.
Sukko landed right in the arms, of an extremely short, but powerful Wizard. He was panting hard, from the drain, after dissipating all the Magic, but that didn't matter as he just beamed as his friend was now here. Everglade cuddled him hard as he smiled.
"Gotcha!"